The Anti-Japanese War Begins with the Northeast Army

How come Sun Zhengnan doesn’t know the interests involved?

Moreover, neither of the two supply lines from Chahar and Manzhouli has been opened yet.

Even if Jiang Dengxuan led the team personally this time and was able to deliver the supplies smoothly, Jiang Cheng knew clearly how high the cost would be.

In addition, we were traveling alone in the desert, and even with tanks leading the way, there was no guarantee that we would not be ambushed by the Japanese.

"Just think about it, if we don't build a railway, there will be more and more incidents like this in the future—"

Jiang Cheng put his hands on his waist, looked back at his chief of staff and said, "The reason why I want to build a railway is because I calculated the cost with my third brother-in-law."

Sun Zhengnan understood what he meant: it was nothing more than telling him that this line, which was no different from his lifeline, must be opened.
"I think the Russians understand how important this road is to us... That's why they are deliberately making things difficult for us, and then using this incident as a pretext to extract more benefits, right?"

Jiang Cheng sneered: "Otherwise, why would they ask for the section of railway outside Suifenhe at this time? It's obvious that they want to use this incident to urge us to withdraw our troops from Vladivostok."

"Mongolia can expand our depth. If a full-scale war really breaks out in the future, we can use space to buy time. The longer we delay, the more doomed the foreign enemy will be. "

"Vladivostok is the only place where we can get weapons and various advanced equipment under the current 'embargo'."

"So no matter which section of the railway it is, we can't lose it. Besides, the negotiation process must be accelerated. I'm afraid Xiao Xu can't wait."

Sun Zhengnan immediately stood at attention and knocked his military boots loudly.

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Just as Jiang Cheng expected, Xu Shuzheng, who was on the front line in Kulun, was attacked by a group of armed organizations whose identities were difficult to identify, almost at the same time as Jiang Dengxuan was attacked.

Fortunately, when Xu Shuzheng first arrived in Kulun, in order to build good relations with the local people, he gave some of the food in the temporary warehouse to the local civilians who had no food to eat. Three incendiary bombs were fired, and two of them missed.
The only incendiary bomb hit the warehouse, but it happened to fall on the open space of the warehouse, igniting a few empty boxes and torn sacks.

But Xu Shuzheng was very clear that this wave of attack was obviously just a tentative one: and there was a high possibility that they were sent by the Japanese.

"Glorious, glorious!"

Xu Shuzheng yelled loudly at his adjutant - the only staff member he brought with him to Jilin Prefecture to take office was Lu Guangyao, who had followed him for many years.

Seeing him running over quickly with cold sweat on his face, he saluted and said, "Captain Xu, the enemy troops that came to attack have withdrawn from the south of the city... The brothers were planning to chase them, but I called them back."

Xu Shuzheng asked about the losses at the other two points, which were basically the same as the situation here, and the losses were not too great... But he immediately saw some flaws from his men's evasive words.

"What on earth happened? Are you trying to hide it from me?"

Hearing that his superior was finally angry, Lu Guangyao reported carefully:
The enemy who came to attack did not cause much damage to the warehouse; but the Japanese used a trick to "lure the tiger away from the mountain" - one of the brothers who was guarding the granary chased them out along the way;

Unexpectedly, when I turned back, I found that the people in the city were looting supplies...

"What a bunch of idiots!"

Before the adjutant could finish his words, Xu Shuzheng was furious. This commander, who was of an orthodox background and was known for his calmness, swore for the first time, "A bunch of idiots only knew how to chase, but why didn't they leave a few people to guard?"

Lu Guangyao then responded, saying that he had left people to guard the place, but these fierce Mongols came with weapons - not only did they clash with the defenders, but both sides also suffered casualties.

Six civilians died and more than thirty were captured in one go; while three of the defenders were seriously injured and seven were slightly injured...

Xu Shuzheng was so angry that his face turned pale, and he immediately led the guards to rush to the granary.

As soon as he arrived at the place, he saw scattered food and fodder, as well as wooden sticks, horse whips, and even broken earth spray guns used in recent fights.

The smoke had not yet completely dissipated, and there was blood and other traces of fighting on the sandy ground... The soldiers were pressing the controlled "troublemakers" to the ground, while others were collecting corpses, and the scene was chaotic everywhere.

Xu Shuzheng was so angry that he couldn't even utter a single curse and strode towards the warehouse.

Because he was worried about being attacked, he divided the remaining food and grass into three parts and asked the troops stationed in the city to guard them in batches.

But even so, their food... was still attacked!
wrong.

Xu Shuzheng's mind was suddenly struck by a thunderbolt. This was really too coincidental. Jiang Dengxuan had just been attacked, and their food supplies were also immediately
If there really wasn't something going on, Xu Shuzheng would find it hard to believe it.

He calmed himself down a little and quickly turned his gaze back to the person in charge of the camp: Bayin, the commander of the Mongolian Cavalry Regiment.

Following closely behind him were two of his men, Agula and Bater.

It was obvious that they were filled with great self-blame because of the losses in the camp, but Xu Shuzheng did not blame them too much. Instead, he asked them about the remaining supplies after the inventory. At that moment, the former military commander became a little flustered.

No one was snatching the horse grass, but there was almost no food left.

While he was reporting, Agula behind him kept giving him looks, suggesting that some things might not be as simple as they seemed.

That's right. The Mongolian Cavalry Regiment is fighting with the Heavy Mechanized Brigade this time, which is equivalent to returning to their homeland. These people around them are all considered their tribesmen, right?
"Okay, let's just rob them - Super Six will only take two or three days to deliver the next batch of supplies."

Xu Shuzheng pretended to be calm and looked back at Bayin who was relieved.

Mongols are Mongols. It is absolutely brave for them to charge head-on, but it is far from enough to expect them to play tricks.

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He turned his gaze slightly and looked at the Mongolian civilians who were tied up and kneeling on the ground.

These people no longer have the strength that is unique to the Mongolians. Instead, they look pale, thin, and have disheveled hair.

Xu Shuzheng rolled his eyes, turned around and said to Bayin: "I don't speak Mongolian, can you ask them for me, who told them that there is food here?"

When these words were spoken, the three Mongolian officers were quite shocked.

But Xu Shuzheng realized that even if the timing of the robbery was coincidental, how could the civilians dare to rob the military camp if they did not receive any accurate information?
It didn't make sense that hunger made them take such desperate measures, because he had just distributed his military rations and there shouldn't be such crazy hungry people.

So, someone spread the word in the city that there was food here, or even planned the "money grabbing time". (End of this chapter)